The owners of a new café in Danielson are doing it all natural, and keeping it as local as possible.

Heirloom Food Company opened this past winter, and is breathing new life into Danielson with its fresh, organic fare, modern atmosphere and locavore approach.

Joshua Wojcik and Wendy Garosshen, two married Killingly High School graduates who are now the proud parents of both the new eatery and a baby girl, are dedicated to bringing healthy, delicious food to the community they both grew up in.

“We always knew that we wanted to do something that centered on being really healthy and organic and all natural — but, for us, really good,” Garosshen, 30, said.

Instead, the duo saw potential for a reincarnation: “We decided to buy it from my mom and fix it up,” Wojcik said.

So the couple moved back to Danielson from West Hartford, near where Garosshen had been working as a teacher for Farmington Public Schools and where Wojcik continues to serve as the policy director for the Office of the State Comptroller.

Now, along with 7-month-old daughter Ayla, they live in the space above the restaurant, which is a converted house. The young mother works in the café six days a week — “Right now, I feel like it’s my baby,” she said — and the busy father commutes to Hartford for his day job, helping out at Heirloom on the weekends.

Page 2 of 3 - “It’s fun to honor his parents, but with our own little twist,” said Garosshen, who added that there are homages to the former health food store at the new business, which Wojcik jokingly referred to Sunflowers 2.0.

Plenty of updates have been made, and the current space is bright, open and inviting.

Colorful paintings by Pomfret artist Kimberly Breault cover the walls, and mismatched tables and chairs fill the wood-floored dining room. A picnic table Wojcik hand-crafted features wood from an old barn that he used to build the counter, coffee bar, another table and part of the handsome fireplace.

“We kind of upcycled and found a lot of estate furniture,” Wojcik said.

Another room is dedicated to natural cosmetics and beauty products, a subject in which the radiant Garosshen is well-versed, looking like a walking ad for the products she touts, with her luminous skin, shiny hair and rosy cheeks.

But the real star of the show is the food, made with fresh, local bread and produce that let the flavors shine.

The sandwiches, which include a veggie reuben on rye — “It’s a recipe that my dad’s been making since 1983,” Wojcik said — are all made on organic bread that’s baked specially for the café by Soleil & Suns Bakery in Woodstock.

Wojcik is fond of the bella burger, made with a grilled portobello mushroom — “It really has a great flavor,” he said. “Being on a sprouted roll, with the red pepper aioli, it really makes it delicious.” The sprouted bread is one of the only items without a local connection, hailing from Alvarado Street Bakery.

Soon, the bulk of the produce at Heirloom will be provided by Blueberry Hill organic farm in South Killingly.

“She’ll be growing almost everything on the menu, from baby arugula to baby greens to carrots, potatoes, garlic, cucumbers and more,” Wojcik said.

While Wojcik is “the numbers guy,” doing the business’s ordering, accounting and payroll, Garosshen is focused on the food.

“Once you get it in people’s mouths, they realize that organic can mean fresher and more delicious,” she said.

The young mom has had no trouble getting people to bite into her baked goods, like chocolate-covered cake balls that are so sinfully delicious, it seems inconceivable that, like the majority of the bakery items, they are vegan.

Page 3 of 3 - Every day, she offers a different muffin, all vegan, from triple berry to lemon poppy seed, and many gluten-free, like carrot spice.

Also popular are Heirloom’s smoothies and juices, which Wojcik said “are a really big part of the business.”

Their best-seller in the smoothie category, Monkey Business, features banana, almond butter and chocolate syrup whirred up with soy and coconut milk, and sweetened with agave.

Customers can also stop in and grab something to-go from a refrigerated case, including Heirloom’s mock chicken salad; but should be careful not to trip over Little Bear, the couple’s long-haired black cat who often suns himself on the porch by the front-door.

Every day brings something new to Heirloom, with daily specials, new customers, growing community support and blossoming ideas taking shape.